5. Conservatives are happier. I'd say the reason is straightforward: if you don't expect the world to be perfect, you are not bothered that it is not perfect. Liberals project their goals onto everyone, and their wring their hands because they don't want to be authoritarian. That conflict, a rigid narrow view of a just society, and the unwillingness to try to impose it, are always going to leave lefties unhappy.

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Johnson85
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"Liberals project their goals onto everyone, and their wring their hands because they don't want to be authoritarian."

???? Were you talking about classical liberals here? I haven't seen too much liberal hand-wringing over the angst caused by imposing their will on other people. Not even hand-wringing for show. They seem perfectly comfortable with the fact that they are enlightened and it is their duty to impose their will on the ignorant masses.